I don't think most of the character design of the 90s was actually made this way however. You didn't see "designed to be attractive" as a design mode until the mid-2000s at the earliest. The 90s was far more experimental in its design direction in general, which meant the games themselves covered a wide array of styles visually and visual design direction didn't become unified until the larger corporate merging of the industry (and subsequent homogenization by the industry). This happened as a result of the video game industry believing it had found its demographic, namely, "young, horny, male teenager." The result was the bro culture we still see in video games today, the problems of racism, sexism, and other propaganda still issues we are dealing with today. While in the 90s there might have been a certain edge to marketing (silly though it is, looking back), companies like Nintendo and Sega were still marketing to everyone. Mid-2000s marketing, however, was very much intended to push out people who didn't fit the demographic, who didn't meet the "market" of "young, horny, male teenager." The transition to what we have now didn't happen overnight, but I don't think what we have now is the result of what the game industry was 25 years ago, at least, not directly. Mostly because I don't think I'd really qualify the game industry formally as an industry until the Playstation or Playstation 2 era at the earliest (not necessarily in terms of money made or sales, but in terms of organizational structures and intentionality to cater to certain audiences).
The numbers that mainline Street Fighter, Tekken, and Smash do are far from normal for the genre. Same goes for Mortal Kombat.
An outfit that will be unlockable in Extra Battle starting next month, yes (Extra Battle outfits often involving more obscure references and have the player unlock by earning in four separate parts over four weeks, each attempt costing 2500 Fight Money).Wow here's a character I haven't seen in some time, is this a skin you can get for SFV? I believe that's suppose to be "Katt" (Yes its a dumb name I know) from Breath of Fire II? I think? (Just for reference this was the original art work looked liked from the SNES game)
As someone who wears suits almost daily: ouch :(
We got 'em!
As an atheist edgelord myself who is also a fan of proper fedoras I fucking hate what sort of people ended up co-opting all of that. I mean, they did it with most of the gaming community as well, ugh. Stop making good things shitty, please. That's actually all I've ever been asking.
No no no, I'm mostly poking fun at myself while expressing frustration over shitty people ruining initially good things. Have nothing against your posts here. I also really love your avatar! :D
I mean the card game manages but after the hobbit movies.....
I remember that interview with Evangeline Lilly where she said she accepted the role of Tauriel as long as they didn't have a love triangle.
It would be nice if the hairstyles weren't separated like that. At the very least it would be nice if it presented it as a "choose your style" thing like Pokemon Go does.
It sounds super unlikely because the whole point of making a Lord of the Rings TV show is to make something that looks and feels like the original books. Sure they're going to go much farther with female characters than Tolkien is wont to do but this will be the last place to look for progressive representation.
Yeah 300K for a game that needed to sell a measly 50K to make its money back is a fairly solid result.
The film critic who coined the term MPDG, Nathan Rabin, wasn't criticizing quirky or non-conventional women characters. He was criticizing 2 dimensional women who's only role in the story is to come in and give the male lead an arc. Instead of acting like real human beings with dreams and wants and a personality of their, they act like life coaches who's only goal is to help the male lead discover some lesson.
I'd imagine that crazy rock 'n' roll philosophy that stems from Guilty Gear also applies to whatever Arcs come up with their other games.
UNIST = French Bread, not Arc (Arc only ported the home versions of Under Night). Either way, I'd say the aesthetics are still pretty different between Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and Under Night, the third being closer to Melty Blood than anything else (which French Bread also developed, but don't own).
How ? This would just displace moderation duties to another outlet. And now splits ERA's moderators attention on two different places. Given lots of them aren't even paid for their service (which shouldn't be the case for fuck sake's pay your mods but that's another subject altogether) how about we don't make their lives more difficult.
Why do you assume the moderators from here would have to run it? And if you don't like the idea of using the chat, you don't have to! This thread would continue to exist! It would just be a place for like-minded people to hang.
So far nobody mentioned it not being officially runned by ERA . Hence me basing my reasoning on it being an official outlet ...
It's not that I don't like using a chat, but more like that the very nature of how Discord structures itself makes you miss out on the value of a well constructed calmly reflected post.
I know I myself am a routine quiet reader of the Game's Professor discord server (very nice place to hangout in)
Edit 2: Forgot to mention, the campaign also has a woman as the main villain.
Don't know if there are any For Honor fans here, I played it quite a lot at launch. It has some great female character designs imo, they just revealed their new heavy type character Sakura. I think the character will be available as both male and female, but they used the female version for the reveal/marketing. What do people think? There's no in-game footage of her yet to my knowledge, only the CG reveal trailer. I'm a fan, makes me wish the character was there when I was still playing.
Edit: Few earlier female (only) character designs from the game
Edit 2: Forgot to mention, the campaign also has a woman as the main villain.
Yeah I won't be going to Reddit at all =P Era has all the gaming discussion I need with strangers.
Yeahhhhh...you can't go into the "Jax Ended Slavery" thread and spout the shit he did.
Oh I'm sure he didn't say anything too bad
*reads thread*
